Improvement in bill and paper files



a. T. WOLGUTT.

Bill and Paper-Files.

NO. 140,177. I Patentedlune24,1873.

AM PHOTO-UTHIIGRAPHIC co. MY.(osaa/v-s PRacELss) UNITED STATES PATENTOEEIoE.

GEORGE T. WOLOOTT, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND HENRYP. GRAVES, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BILL AND PAPER FILES.

Specification forming part ofLetters Patent No. 140,177, dated June24,1873; application filed April 8, 1873.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, GEORGE T. WOLCOTT, ofDetroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Bill and Paper Files and I do declare thatthe following is a true and accurate description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, and being a part of this specification, in which- Figure1 is an exterior perspective View, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofone of the partitions and its spring removed from the box. Fig. 3 is apartial cross-section.

Like letters refer to like parts in each figure. This invention has forits object to provide arack, or case of racks, to receive a series ofblank forms of shipping-bills, or other printed blanks, in such a mannerthat the first one of each kind will present itself for extractionfleaving the remainder undisturbed and held compactly together, so thatdust cannot accumulate between the sheets. The invention consists in acase provided with longitudinal partitions inserted in vertical grooves,each partition being provided with a spring paperholder, arranged andoperating as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing, A represents a case open at top and bottom, the innerfaces of its ends having cut in them vertical grooves a, in each pair ofwhich a partition, b, is inserted. To the rear side of the bottom edgeof each partition is fastened a strip, 1), to which, in turn, aresecured the lower ends of an archshaped wire-spring, (l, which extendsabove the top of the partitions, and presseslightly against the rearface of each partition near the top. The blank forms are placed betweenthe springs and the partitions, resting upon the strips 1). Theshipping-bills, as well as other blanks of that character, being uniformin size, and always having a title-line across the top edge, the lattercan always be seen abovethe partition. In withdrawing the first blankfrom its receptacle the second is, by the friction of the first,slightly raised, so that thereafter a single blank will always presentitself.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-- The described rack consisting of the case A, with ascending sidesand open bottom partitions B, arranged in an ascending series, strips1), and springs 0, combined and arranged as described, for the purposeset forth.

GEORGE T. WVOLGOTT.

Witnesses:

H. S. SPRAGUE, H..F. EBERTS.

